utopia-php
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
     "type": "library",
     "keywords": ["php","framework", "upf", "utopia", "cache"],
     "license": "MIT",
-    "minimum-stability": "stable",
+    "minimum-stability": "dev",
+    "prefer-stable": true,
     "scripts": {
         "check": "./vendor/bin/phpstan analyse --level max src tests",
         "lint": "./vendor/bin/pint --test",
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@
         "ext-redis": "*",
         "ext-memcached": "*",
         "utopia-php/telemetry": "*",
-        "utopia-php/pools": "1.*"
+        "utopia-php/pools": "dev-fix/pool-empty-resilience as 1.1.0"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "phpunit/phpunit": "^9.3",

diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
diff --git a/tests/Cache/PoolTest.php b/tests/Cache/PoolTest.php
@@ -29,4 +29,60 @@ public function testGetSize(): void
         self::$cache->save('test', 'test');
         $this->assertEquals(4, self::$cache->getSize());
     }
+
+    public function testPoolRetriesAfterConnectionCreationFailure(): void
+    {
+        $callCount = 0;
+        $path = __DIR__.'/tests/pool-retry';
+        if (! file_exists($path)) {
+            mkdir($path, 0777, true);
+        }
+
+        $pool = new UtopiaPool(new Stack(), 'retry-test', 2, function () use ($path, &$callCount) {
+            $callCount++;
+            if ($callCount === 1) {
+                throw new \Exception('Transient connection failure');
+            }
+
+            return new Filesystem($path);
+        });
+
+        $cache = new Cache(new Pool($pool));
+
+        $result = $cache->save('retry-key', 'retry-value');
+        $this->assertEquals('retry-value', $result);
+
+        $loaded = $cache->load('retry-key', 3600);
+        $this->assertEquals('retry-value', $loaded);
+    }
+
+    public function testPoolEmptyErrorIncludesDiagnostics(): void
+    {
+        $path = __DIR__.'/tests/pool-diag';
+        if (! file_exists($path)) {
+            mkdir($path, 0777, true);
+        }
+
+        $pool = new UtopiaPool(new Stack(), 'diag-test', 1, function () use ($path) {
+            return new Filesystem($path);
+        });
+        $pool->setRetryAttempts(1);
+        $pool->setRetrySleep(0);
+
+        // Exhaust the pool by popping the only connection
+        $connection = $pool->pop();
+
+        try {
+            // This should fail because the pool is exhausted
+            $pool->pop();
+            $this->fail('Expected exception was not thrown');
+        } catch (\Exception $e) {
+            $this->assertStringContainsString('diag-test', $e->getMessage());
+            $this->assertStringContainsString('active', $e->getMessage());
+            $this->assertStringContainsString('idle', $e->getMessage());
+        }
+
+        // Return the connection to clean up
+        $pool->push($connection);
+    }
 }